Eggs in your diet

TonyB0588

lilsteig wrote: »

4 egg whites daily here!

Ugh!! I couldn't do that without the yolk.

BrokeBirkin

I know eggs were considered bad before, but currently most health conscious people eat 2-3 a day. I wish I could but unless it's in something they end up making me sick. 1 scrambled every so often but NEVER hard boiled!

Christine_72

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lilsteig wrote: »

4 egg whites daily here!

Ugh!! I couldn't do that without the yolk.

Me neither!

I'm having 4 whole eggs on toast for dinner tonight. Quick , easy and filling.

Sara1791

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cwolfman13 wrote: »

Eggs are a delicious whole food...my wife and I do vegetarian 3-4 days per week and we eat a lot of eggs and we're considering getting chickens in the spring so that we can get our own eggs right here at home...dietary cholesterol really isn't a concern for most people...for most people, dietary cholesterol has no bearing on blood serum levels.

Keeping chickens is fun. The one thing that annoys me is that they drop off production in the winter so we've had to get more and more hens and then in the springtime we have more eggs than we know what to do with.

Your local food bank would probably be immensely grateful for any spare eggs you might have in the spring and summer. I wish I were being overrun with eggs (I live in a city where chickens are illegal) but regrettably I'm just overrun with eggplants, LOL. Not quite as tasty. They gratefully take all my spare produce regardless.

Or, like thrifty farm wives have known across the centuries, maybe there is a market among your friends and neighbors for free-range eggs. We pay $3/dozen for eggs from my daughter's riding stable, and they will last for months if the dirt and "bloom" are not wiped off till just before use. Have you tested how long your eggs will last in the fridge? The more I have the chance to observe real free-range chickens and real eggs, the more amazed I am at the miracles of animals literally turning crap (they LOVE living in a stable!) into gold (with the most intensely colored yolks you have ever seen).

I could go for some eggplant parmiggiana!

Yes, we have a market for them, but we only recently tapped into that resource in this, our fourth year of keeping chickens. It's an hour away, but it's usually worth it. Closer to home, many people already have their own flock or buy from the Amish farm stands. I can't really compete.

We usually keep our eggs au natural for home use, but our state's laws require refrigeration asap and we've found that our buyers prefer the poop to be washed off. You & I know that's just ignorance, but I can't be educating everybody.

I never thought about the food bank. As the hens slow down and make the long trip less and less worth the gas money, I might look into that.

eta: Yes, fresh eggs last a very long time. I believe grocery store eggs are already a few weeks old by the time they get to market.

Free-range is kind of a loaded term. My birds have plenty of outdoor and indoor space, but they are protected from predators by a chain link fence. At night, when they go home to roost, they are locked up, again, to guard against predators.

Oh, I would love to swap my surplus eggplants (and pattypan squash...and tomatoes....!) for eggs. That might be another idea for you to keep in mind. Bartering is such a lost art in our culture.

Here's another fun project you can do with your spare eggs. Science fair/zombie apocalypse practice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUYgguMz1qI

I can't click the link right now but is that the waterglass method? Granny Miller had a post on that.

It's comparing a variety of methods that would have been used in the Revolutinary War era. Waterglass depends on industrially processed materials that wouldn't have been so accessible in the colonial era. This site does scores of recreations of the recipes from the earliest American cookbooks. It's pretty awesome if you like to geek out on that stuff. But Granny Miller is pretty awesome as well. I was so disappointed when she stopped commenting and mothballed most of her site.

I DO like to geek out on that stuff! & I miss her too. ☹️

aashwill

Lately for breakfast I've been eating six eggs scrambled with celery and red onions cooked into them. Easy to make which is a big plus for me.